MAKER STORIES
HARPER REED
Harper Reed is an hacker/engineer who builds paradigm-shifting tech and leads others to do the same.
CHANCE THE RAPPER
Chancelor Bennett, better known by his stage name Chance The Rapper, is an American hip hop recording artist from Chicago, Illinois.
TAVI GEVINSON
Tavi Gevinson is the founder and editor-in-chief of Rookie, an online magazine for teenage girls.
ADRIAN HOLOVATY
Adrian Holovaty is a web developer and musician who co-created the Django web framework, made one of the original Google Maps mashups, and founded EveryBlock.com.
CHRIS KASKIE
Chris Kaskie is the President of Pitchfork, the award-winning online music magazine the New York Times calls “the most prominent brand in online music journalism.”
JOE SWANBERG
Joe Swanberg has directed many acclaimed feature films and shows, including Drinking Buddies, Happy Christmas and the popular IFC.com series, Young American Bodies.
ZACH KAPLAN
Zach Kaplan is the founder and CEO of Inventables™, the hardware store for designers which is poised to change the game for makers everywhere.
THE HOOD INTERNET
A creative duo who came to fame thanks to their genre-jumping DJ mixes, the Hood Internet was formed in Chicago by members Aaron Brink (ABX) and Steve Reidell (STV SLV).
STEVE JAMES
Documentary film-maker Steve James produced & directed Hoop Dreams, winner of every major critics prize; The Interrupters; and most recently, Life Itself on the life of critic Roger Ebert.
PAST EVENTS
CHICAGO MADE SXSW TRADE SHOW BOOTH
Sunday, March 9
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12pm – Meet & Greet: Andrea Saenz, 1st Deputy Commissioner, Chicago Public Library
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3pm – Meet & Greet: The Uprising Creative, Partner Miles Benjamin (formerly of Eyes and Ears)
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5pm – Performance: KSRA
Monday, March 10
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12pm – Meet & Greet: Zach Kaplan, CEO, Inventables
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1pm – Meet & Greet: Dave Moore, Co-Executive Director, Chicago International Movies and Music Festival
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2pm – Meet & Greet: Vivian Teng, Managing Director, Chicago International Film Festival
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3pm – Meet & Greet: Mike McNamara, Co-Founder and Director of Programming, The Midwest Independent Film Festival
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4pm – Meet & Greet: Michael Una, Founder, Unatronics
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5pm – Performance: White Mystery
Tuesday, March 11
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12pm – Meet & Greet: Collin Schiffli, Director, & David Dastmalchian, Writer, ANIMALS, the film
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1pm – Meet & Greet: Nan Warshaw, Co-Founder of Bloodshot Records, and Robbie Fulks, artist
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2pm – Meet & Greet: Howard Tullman, CEO, 1871
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3pm – Meet & Greet: Eric Sheinkop, CEO, Music Dealers
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4pm – Meet & Greet: Betsy Steinberg, Managing Director, Illinois Film Office
Wednesday, March 12
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11am – Performance: Milo & Otis
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12pm – Meet & Greet: Marah Eakin, Music Editor of The A.V. Club, and Andrew Morgan, Agent at Billions
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1pm – Performance: My Gold Mask
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2pm – Performance: Archie Powell & The Exports
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2:30pm – Meet & Greet: Philippe Ravanas, Chairman, and Jerry Brindisi of Columbia College Chicago’s Arts, Entertainment & Media Management Department
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3pm – Meet & Greet: Martin Atkins, Author and Music Business Department Chair of SAE Chicago
CHICAGO MADE SXSW MUSIC SHOWCASE
Tuesday, March 11
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